How to Icrease Dedicated Memory

Mado said:

but why on win XP on the same pc it was 1024MB

Because, drivers and the system lie. It doesn't tell you that 960 MB of the 1024 MB VRAM stated is actually using the system RAM.

Given that the video is an onboard intel chip then for gaming yes, definitely go get an nvidia 265 card for something fast and cheap :)

But likely the real problem is that the drive for Windows 7 for that chip set (at least the one you have installed now) is not as good as the one you had installed for XP.

You can go to intel's website and look for a newer Windows 7 driver, that may fix it. But in the end, even if it does, that graphics chip is not going to be "good" for gaming anyway :/

i have a dell work station desktop pc, which doesnt say a thing about its psu on the psu lol, its not even ATX form factor then again it does roll with a pentium 4 cpu .. then again its only use is to keep me occupied when i cant be bothered to go home from work and sleep in my den on its 3rd floor

Yeah thats a good point. lol that would just make it effort im not complaining, pc only cost me £20 on ebay with express shipping probably the first and only dell i shall own